Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 9 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Updates

This is not a two-toot. I'm just saying the advice that I gave was just that it feels like chasing the points this week. You had the kind of out of normal circumstances big game last week. Murray came off with the toe injury.

Henry's very, very talented. And I know we'll never know because he didn't take the field. Yeah, I was going to say, I just could not disagree more. But the caution, the caution flag for me, I know. You said Murray struggled in this game. Henry, you think would have had a big game. I don't know why you think Henry would have a bigger game than Murray, who's leading the entire league and running back points. But I can tell you. Go ahead. Because Murray and his injured toe that he's been, you know, practicing through.

showed up on the field this week. And it took a long time in that game before he got in the end zone and got his fancy points. He was fine by the end of the game. But as you watch the game, you go, man, he just looks a little bit slower. And the matchup was still juicy for running back. So I think if Derek Henry was there, he would have done well. Hopefully you were on Twitter and saw the news that he was, he got injured during warmups. So you kind of had, if you were right last second, you had the opportunity to save yourself and pull him out.

So he'll have an MRI this week on the calf. We'll have to learn more about the injury and how long it'll keep him out or sidelined. Alan Hearns being evaluated for a concussion after the week nine games. So pay attention to that. And then Travis Benjamin exited with a knee injury. I, you know, I don't think we.

We're telling anybody to start Benjamin or Tyrell Williams, to be honest. Tyrell got in the end zone, though, this week. And Benjamin went off the field. But this is what I was worried about. I didn't know which guy would be on the field or stay there. Victor Cruz is also dealing with an injury, which you saw Shepard kind of get loose a little bit towards the second half. He scored. If Victor Cruz is going to miss time, then Sterling Shepard gets a little bump up. All right. Let's get into the big performers this week.

This week's fantasy stud muffins. All right, we know about Matt Ryan. Had the great Thursday night game. Marcus Marietta put together another fantastic fantasy performance. 27 for 43 for 3, 13, and 3. He had, I believe, two turnovers that really cost him this game. He was going to say he threw even two more touchdowns. Through the other team. To the other team? Well, fumbled one, right? Yeah. So maybe he had three turnovers.

Mario had a big game for fantasy, though. Aaron Rogers pulled it out in the end with 297 and 3. Drew Breeze, another great game, 323 and 3. Now we're getting into the guys that, you know, I want to talk about a little bit more. Specifically, Eli Manning and Dak Prescott, they had huge stud muffin weeks, 257 and 4 for Eli, two of those to Odell Beckham Jr. And then Dak Prescott, you know, I kept waiting for the Cowboys to kind of...

pump the brakes in this game and he had enough uh enough leeway there to get three touchdowns they did what i think all nfl teams should do and i and i give them kudos they stepped on the gas and they stepped on the neck and they never did the whole thing where okay we're up so we're going to slow down they got to a giant lead and then they pulled their starters out that's the way you do it you know as opposed to like just trying to leave the starters in and then just run them into the ground exactly

Fair enough. I mean, it's nice to have Alfred Morris. We could see this kind of a situation. Yeah, we could see Dak Press got in this coming, right? Of course, it was the Browns. I think he was my fourth highest rated quarterback this week. Hopefully you picked him up and played him. He was the guy we said we would stream over our streaming candidates. It was still scary to do. I'm telling you right now. Starting DAC was worrisome to me because for me, you know, these games, look at, look at Andrew Luck.

It looked like it was going to be an absolute fantasy wonderland for him against Green Bay. But you get around the goal line. A couple, you know, I feel like Elliot had the potential to just get into the end zone anytime they were in the red zone like Frank Gordid and Nerf his day. It's fair, but it's still the Browns. Yeah, yeah, it is. Winston Bortles and Kaepernick had huge days. Before we move, Eli Manning, that was a, he got really helped out here by Carson Wentz.

really stinking up the joint, but that was a matchup or a big game that I admittedly did not see coming for Eli Manning. Eli Manning is, Eli Manning is like nitroglycerin right now where you just have no clue. You have no clue when this thing is going to explode and is it going to be beneficial for you? Are you digging the tunnel for the train through the mountain or does it blow up and your hands go skyrocketing into the sky?

And Blake Bortles did it again. Yeah, garbage time. Well, sort of. Yeah, I mean, it was sort of garbage time. 22 for 41. On the season, he has been as bad a quarterback as I can remember watching. And he is the 10th ranked fantasy quarterback. Six for 54 on the ground doesn't hurt. Did you see the clip of him on the sideline? You know, they always warm up. He goes to do just a regular standard warm up pass and the ball just.

Flies out of his hand? No, but I would love to see that. Sounds about right. It's just, you're bored. Someone should like replace the ball in that video with Gus Bradley's head. He's just fumbling away his career. Colin Kaepernick, 24 for 39, for 398. 398. And two, look, the matchup was too juicy. Does this say that something is majorly wrong with Russell Wilson?

Because the matchup, everybody has been throwing for a billion yards on New Orleans. Not at all. You don't think so. Not even a little bit. Russell Wilson struggled. No, because the reason Kaplanet could do this was because New Orleans got out to a huge lead and their defense is so pathetically horrible. This isn't the same situation that, you know, if Russell Wilson's down 35 to 10 and he's got three quarters to play, I think he's going to put up these kind of numbers. No, that's a great.

And Kaepernick did this without any rushing yards, basically. Five for 23 on the ground. And two of his, he had two pass plays that accounted for half of that production there. You have the Dwan Harris ridiculousness. And then the, uh, Vance McDonald had a major, major big touchdown. He is just patenting those. That's all he does. I mean, Vance can. One for 70. Go down the sideline. I mean, um, before we talk about running backs, I don't want to thank today's sponsor. Look, it's a new one, guys. And if you're a guy like me, you know.

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I would be remiss if I didn't mention one more piece of news that I had forgotten. And we're talking about running backs now. And so it's kind of important that we bring up the ultimate. Big, big, big, big stud muffin. Big, big, big stud muffin news. You did not see that coming, did you? I totally forgot. You totally forgot. Help is on the way, Green Bay. Hey, you know, I just talked about how Vanilla Don Jackson is.

Joyc Bell. I haven't seen one thing from Don Jackson that makes me think he's not an arena bowl superstar. Joyke Bell is expected to be signed today, right? By the Green Bay Packers? That's amazing. Sometimes things work out really great for the show and for the sound effects. And that's one of those things. I can't wait for that revenge game. Hey, good news, by the way. Mike Evans is also practicing on Monday. Oh, that is good news. That's pretty hot. How's Doug Martin doing?

He's skipping a few years. All right, stud muffins at the running back position. Let's fly through these guys. Oh, my goodness. Melvin Gordon, do you know how to play football now? Wow. He said, I'll take that zero touchdown season and raise you about 50. Remember when he said that he has started slow at every level? He had a hard first year in high school, hard first year in college. Hard first year in the NFL. But goodness gracious, he's figured it out. 32 for 196 and 1.

Four for 65. 250. He is matchup-proof. Combined yards. He's a match-up-proof start. He's an elite top-three play. I mean, you're talking David Johnson, Melvin Gordon, Lev Bell, Zeke. Yeah, you have to mention him in that upper echelon now. I agree. And just his involvement in the passing game is so valuable. He is just, he can take that screen. He gives you everything you want. There are some players, like C.J. Anderson, when he's getting a good workload, you know, catch the ball.

You know he can run, but breaking that big play isn't really possible. Melvin Gordon has broken two long runs on like third and fourth and must run situations in the past two weeks to win the game for the Chargers. Yeah. Speaking of another stud who has won the game by breaking a few important runs off, that was Latavius Murray.

Goodness gracious, I love Latavius. You do. You've got a reason to. 20 for 114 and 3 against the Broncos. I had a matchup where I needed Latavius to not score 10 points and I would win. Hey, it was like the Band-Aid though. Yeah. I was ripped off and you didn't have to worry about it. See what I mean? This is, look, Derek Carr had a great game. He played well against Denver. No touchdowns. No touchdowns for you. Hmm.

So you think like maybe the touchdowns are overvalued for fantasy purposes? Going back to the well there? Well, when you get three one-yard touchdowns for Murray, it's, hey, he got it done. His first dive into the end zone, that was risky business. That was not a practical thing to do. It worked out, though. All right, we know about Zeke. You're not benching Zeke. So, hey, congrats. He had a great week. Frank Gore. Frank Gore, another great week. Looked good. He was almost my rising star this week. Oh, but dude.

He's looked. He's a setting sun is what he is, but he just never sets. That's the thing. He's just kind of stuck at noon, and he's going to stay there for a while. He is. Hey, he's back. Mark Ingram. Start of the week, Mark Ingram. We were, we were full tilting over slack. I tweeted.

That I cannot handle this Mark Ingram benching. And then he wasn't benching anymore. He couldn't either. He's like, I will not be benched. 15 for 158 and a touchdown. Now, the nice thing is, is no matter who you started, you were happy because Tim Hightower had 23 carries and scored. These guys are the number two and number eight running backs on the week right now. Start your running backs against the 49ers is a recommendation. Hey, hey, does anybody know?